Single-beam road-lighting equipment.

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(1) Head lamps arranged to provide a single distribution of light not supplemented by auxiliary driving lamps shall be permitted on motor vehicles manufactured and sold prior to July 15, 1936, in lieu of multiple-beam roadlighting equipment specified in section 42-4-216 if the single distribution of light complies with the following requirements and limitations:

  1. The head lamps shall be so aimed that when the vehicle is not loaded none of thehigh-intensity portion of the light shall, at a distance of twenty-five feet ahead, project higher than a level of five inches below the level of the center of the lamp from which it comes and in no case higher than forty-two inches above the level on which the vehicle stands at a distance of seventy-five feet ahead.

  2. The intensity shall be sufficient to reveal persons and vehicles at a distance of at leasttwo hundred feet.

(2) Any person who violates any provision of this section commits a class B traffic infraction.

Source: L. 94: Entire title amended with relocations, p. 2253, § 1, effective January 1, 1995.

Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 42-4-216 as it existed prior to 1994, and the former § 42-4-218 was relocated to § 42-4-220.


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